Subject: Re: GPL'd code in kernel drivers
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/29/2001 10:35:50
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:29:35PM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > Rewrite those structs.  Make them similar, but not the same.
> > It's the code that has the copyright, not the information.
> 
> It's a binary image of some code to be uploaded to the DSP (a "kernel"
> image) stored in an array of hex values. I don't have programming specs
> for the card's DSP.

Couldn't you have the structure allocated and empty, then have an LKM load
the DSP code into it?  Then the driver can finish initializing the board by
downloading the DSP code.

-Andrew